Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
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- Author: interconnected.org
- Full Title: Protocol Fiction, Desire, and Belief
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2023/05/19/protocols
Highlights
There are 18 rules. I’ll pick out 8. (View Highlight)
you also have to create desire and a kind of gregarious desire – people have to easily see the value and want to get involved! And they have to tell their friends! (View Highlight)
So what’s the smallest way to have that kind of experience? (View Highlight)
Activities become easy when they align with a social consensus. Once established, you don’t get stop-energy from doing something that matches this future. (View Highlight)
New highlights added August 3, 2023 at 12:07 PM
you also have to create desire and a kind of gregarious desire – people have to easily see the value and want to get involved! And they have to tell their friends! (View Highlight)
New highlights added August 3, 2023 at 2:24 PM
Activities become easy when they align with a social consensus. Once established, you don’t get stop-energy from doing something that matches this future. (View Highlight)
Slazinger/Vonnegut puts forward that you need a mind-opening team of three sorts of specialists:
- An authentic genius: a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in general circulation. ‘A genius working alone,’ he says, ‘is invariably ignored as a lunatic.’
- An intelligent person in good standing, who testifies that the genius is far from mad. ‘A person working like that alone,’ says Slazinger, ‘can only yearn out loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.’
- An explainer. ‘He will say almost anything in order to be interesting or exciting,’ says Slazinger. ‘Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.’ (View Highlight)